Honest mare Invincibella saluted in an historical edition of the Tattersall’s Tiara at Eagle Farm handing her trainer Chris Waller a record 18^th Group 1 win for the season and her jockey Jason Collett his first win at the highest level.

Backing-up from a successful title defence in the Group 2 Dane Ripper Stakes, which has now produced seven of the Tiara winners since 2009, five-year-old Invincibella finally broke through with a Group 1 success in the $500,000 Brisbane feature.

Rounding out Group 1 racing for the 2018-19 season, the Tattersall’s Tiara result also elevated Waller to a class of his own with the master trainer preparing a record 18 Group 1 winners for the season.

He previously sat equal with the late, great Tommy Smith who trained 17 Group 1 champs during the 1979/80 season.

Waller’s record 18 Group 1 wins for 2018/19 included seven from champion mare Winx, four from The Autumn Sun and two by Very Ellegant.

Invincibella joined Shraaoh, Nature Strip, Patrick Erin and Shillelagh as his other individual Group 1 winners for the season.

Collett was thrilled post-win becoming the third Group 1 winning hoop for his family after Invincibella fended off the Godolphin-raced duo Pohutukawa in second and Savatiano in third to take out the Tiara.

“It’s a long time coming,” he said.

“She copped a fair bump…she managed to pick herself up.

“A very good effort by Chris and his team.

“She’s a multiple Group 2 winner and now a Group 1 winner.”

Invincibella, fifth in last year’s Tattersall’s Tiara held at Doomben, showed true tenacity to get the job done and continued her excellent Queensland strike-rate.

“I think she’s off to the breeding barn after this so it’s a pretty good swansong,” Collett, who before the 2019 Tiara had ridden 11 Group 1 second placegetters, said.

Connections however could now be tempted to race on with the daughter of I Am Invincible, heading not to the breeding barn but to the Gold Coast during next year’s Magic Millions Racing Carnival chasing a third successive victory in the $1 million MM Fillies & Mares race over the summer.

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2019 Tattersall’s Tiara Results & Finishing Order

Place	#	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Margin	Br.	Wgt.	SP
1	1	INVINCIBELLA	Chris Waller	Jason Collett	–	7	57kg	$10
2	18	POHUTUKAWA	James Cummings	Blake Shinn	0.1L	4	55.5kg	$5
3	10	SAVATIANO	James Cummings	Tommy Berry	0.5L	11	57kg	$4.40F
4	4	OREGON’S DAY	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Michael Walker	1.25L	18	57kg	$81
5	15	JAMAICAN RAIN	Richard Laming	Jamie Kah	1.35L	6	57kg	$31
6	7	ECKSTEIN	Chris Waller	Craig Newitt	1.55L	14	57kg	$21
7	11	NOIRE	Chris Waller	Robbie Fradd	1.65L	9	57kg	$20
8	5	PRINCESS POSH	Kris Lees	Larry Cassidy	1.85L	12	57kg	$26
9	12	NAANTALI (NZ)	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Ms Nikita Beriman	2.05L	17	57kg	$91
10	8	WINTER BRIDE	Toby Edmonds	Ryan Maloney	2.15L	5	57kg	$19
11	3	SPRIGHT	Garry Frazer	Michael Cahill	2.25L	8	57kg	$10
12	16	OUTBACK BARBIE	Tony Gollan	Jim Byrne	2.65L	1	55.5kg	$19
13	17	MULTAJA	James Cummings	Jeff Lloyd	3.05L	10	55.5kg	$9
14	19e	BACCARAT BABY	David Vandyke	Micheal Hellyer	3.8L	16	55.5kg	$31
15	13	SIREN’S FURY	Jason Coyle	Tegan Harrison	4L	3	57kg	$101
16	14	PECANS	Kris Lees	Tim Clark	4.2L	2	57kg	$81
17	9	EGG TART	Chris Waller	Glen Boss	8.7L	15	57kg	$17
18	6	IRITHEA	Bjorn Baker	James Orman	9.45L	13	57kg	$31
–	22e	SPLIT LIP	Will Clarken	Matthew McGillivray	–	0	–	–
–	23e	SWEET DEAL	John Thompson	–	–	0	–	–
–	21e	PLATINUM ANGEL	Toby Edmonds	Ben Allen	–	0	–	–
–	2	PROMPT RESPONSE	Chris Waller	Glyn Schofield	–	0	–	–
–	20e	CON TE PARTIRO (USA)	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Tim Clark	–	0	–	–